This page lists the most obvious known issues with
TM 2.0
and suggests workarounds. By "most obvious" we mean those issues that many users are likely to encounter. Note that there may be other severe or critical issues not listed here, because they are less likely to occur. See the Bugzilla: TM Major and Critical, P1 and P2 query to show those.

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Known Problems in TM 2.0

RSE Local and DStore: when browsing into an archive and using the "Move To" functionality on a folder, it can happen that this folder gets removed from the archive but not extracted properly. This can mean loss of data, and we are working on a fix urgently. See the bugzilla entry (left) for ideas about workarounds.

Renaming an item on an RSE FTP connection can move that item to the place that was expanded before, instead of just renaming it in the same directory. Workaround: before renaming the item, refresh and expand the folder in which the item resides.

Several problems have been reported with the RSE EFS integration, see the bugzilla query (left) for a full list. Some of these issues appear critical, like hanging Eclipse when refreshing a remote folder linked in to a JDT tree; but in many cases we think that the problem is not with the TM/RSE EFS provider but with the clients not being prepared for remote resources through EFS properly. We will continue looking at EFS issues with high priority, and at the same time we encourage all projects to be aware that resources in the workspace are not necessarily fast to access, in the case they actually reside on a remote computer linked in through EFS.

We had to take out the "Download on Copy" workaround again because of critical bug 189268. A proper fix will need support for the "PluginTransfer" method in the Project Explorer. Workaround: Open the Resource Navigator in a separate view, then drag&drop to the Resource Navigator instead.

When a "list directory" query is extremely slow because of e.g. missing mounted file systems, the dstore server gets unresponsive because it is single-threaded for "list" type queries. Other queries are multi-threaded, so fixing this in the future should not be too hard. Unfortunately, when the client cancels the operation further access to the hanging dstore server may block the UI. Workaround: When a dstore connection hangs, cancel the job in the progress view, then disconnect and reconnect the hanging connection. This will restart the dstore server.

On dstore, launch the server with proper encoding parameter. Multiple servers may be needed for multiple different encodings on the same host. The host-wide encoding control has been added to RSE but it is not yet functional for file and path names. This will be added as a bug fix in RSE 2.0.1.